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A collection consisting mainly of the manuscripts, correspondence and other papers, [16 cent., second ½]-[1909x1925], of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire and Wigfair, Flintshire, including a considerable amount of correspondence to and from John Lloyd ('The Philosopher'), one of the most notable members of the family. The collection also includes correspondence of members of the Wynn family of Gwydir, the Clough family of Plas Clough and Hafodunos, the Holland family of Berw, the families of Carreglwyd, and the Rev. Richard Howard, Denbigh (matters relating to lead, iron and mineral resources in Flintshire); together with Hafodunos and Wigfair rentals and accounts and accounts relating to lead and copper mines in North Wales.

An undated holograph letter from John Tudr [Siôn Tudur, poet, ob. 1602] to his kinsman and friend Ieuan ap Rys ap Davydd, touching a pew (endorsement : 'forme') [in St. Asaph parish church].

A holograph letter, possibly a draft, 1664, from John Lloyde, Wickwer [Wigfair], to a kinsman in London, referring to the writer's daughter [Anne], wife of John Vaughan, a freeholder in Henllan parish, who is troubled with the 'King's Evil' and is about to take a journey to London in hopes of access to the King's presence to receive his touch. The writer names three physicians whom she has consulted, namely Mr. John Lloyd, Marchwiell, Mr. Pugh of Llanbeder, and cousin Wm. Williams. The writer also mentions his sons John and David, and solicits the recipient's assistance in securing a preferment for the latter, who is at the Court. There are references also to 'your nephew & myne' Nedd. Lloyd of Tythyn and the recipient's nephews and nieces in Caredvynyth who are sick of small pox.

Sixty-two holograph and autograph letters addressed to Maurice (Morris) Wynne (Winn), one of the Grooms of H. M. Privy Council in Ordinary. The writers include David Beavan, Tir Llello, 1668/9 (rents paid, and arrears due for, Tir Lello and the Mill), Roger Burges, Killkenney and Dublin, 1667-1668 (3) (money matters), Roger Burgis, 1670-1671 and undated (4) (personal, the sale of silver cups to Mr. Haymar Dather of Pentre Pant, the writer's visit to London, the writer's departure from the country, money matters), Da. Gwynne, Parke, [16]78 (thanks for the recipient's beneficent care and favour), Sarah Gwynne, Parke, [16]70/1 (the writer's debts, the sufferings of the writer's family on behalf of the 'Loyall partie'), Ri. Jeffreys, [16]78 (the writer's 'Concern of next Moneth' and his intercession on behalf of an injured servant), Hen. Jones, undated (the 'brisk and amorous' behaviour of 'Our Young Executor upon the knowledge of his fortune', the writer's command of a company and a fort in Munster called the Bantry, greetings to Sir Rich. Wynne and others named) (addressed to Pen y Brin, Caernarvonshire), Anne Lewys, Pengwern, also from Caire Melour and Leaweny , [16]75-1679 and undated (6) (acknowledges two letters sent to Llwyn, assistance to the writer by gentlemen nominated by the recipient, references to cousin Ed'd Williams and uncle John Lloyd, the health of the recipient and of the writer's mother, a book to be sent by the writer's mother to the recipient, the recipient's affairs at Penybryn, cousin Edward Williams ill with quotidian ague, unable to leave Caire Melour because Bulch Cared a Urane is impassable until May), John Lewys, Pengwern, also from Penybryn, 1671-1679 (12) (details of the management of the recipient's concerns at Penybryn and Penmachno, Anne Lewys and Lewys Anwill ill with small pox and sister Lewys with yellow jaundice, thanks for a Welsh Bible), Katherine Lewys, Pengwern, 1669-1670 (2) (an account of the recipient's affairs at Penmachno, encloses a lock of her daughter Katherine's hair to be put in six inscribed rings), Dorothy Lloyd, Tythin, 1670/1 (a reference to the burial of Thomas Lloyd of Gwickwer, letters of administration on behalf of cousin Betty Hope, moneymatters), John Lloyd, from Chester, on the way to London, [16]64 (the death of Mr. Thomas Edwards, son of Baron Edwards, urging the recipient to secure the reversion of the office of Baronship of the Exchequer of Chester and an office belonging to the Custom house at Chester), John Moris, Disserth, 1661-1662 (2) (the rent of Cumgooren, a claim to right of common on Rose oddjar Lechreed), William Moris, Disserth, 1666 (an offer for the grain, hay, and grass growing upon Tyr llello and the Common), Hugh Pennant, undated (obligations to Lord Rochester for his interest in cousin Tom's education), Andrew Philips, Llandewi [16]64 (the recipient's affairs in these parts, with mention of tenant John Moris), Jo. Phillipps, Brecon, [16]66 (a criticism of the recipient's new bailiff), John Phillips, [rector of] Disserth, [16]67 (the receipt of recipient's rents, the burning of the Mill and the house at Tyr llello, Mr. David's very bad success at the Assizes at Brecon for the Parke), Jo. Phillipps, Charles Lewes, David Evans (by mark), and Rees Lloyd, Disserth, [16]63 (a resolution to contribute towards the maintenance of a suit in Chancery to protect the recipient's and their own right to Rhose Lechreed, Gwerne y feene, y Graig Cogh, and Crybin dee) (witnessed by John Moris), Evan Price, 1666-1677 (2) ( personal, discussions and relations with the recipient's tenants, the receipt of recipient's rents, a slight increase in the price of cattle), Ro. Pugh, Dublin, 1663 (a petition for a proportion of the money designed for the relief of loyal and indigent officers), Ed. Thelwall, Dôl in Edeirneon, 1661 (a request for the recipient's charitable consideration towards the writer's nephew, a poor orphan, son to the writer's brother Maurice), Lymley Thellwell, Dublin, [16]73 (a violent flux of rheum falling upon the writer's eyes, a suit against the writer by Lord Ranelagh' s father countenanced by the writer's brother Roberte in order to recover debts due to the writer in England and Ireland and arrears of rent from Glantanad in Wales, the writer's intention to turn over a new leaf), Margarett Vaughan, undated (the death of the writer's brother, a caveat in the Prerogative Court in connection with the administration of her husband's estate), Thomas Vaughan, Coed y(e) Cra, [1662]-1664 (5) (a request for employment in a proposed standing army, cousin Moris Wynn's settlement in London, a request to Col. Whittley for a share of the money to be distributed to indigent officers, a request for assistance to a bearer John Johns who seeks to become one of the King's Scholars at Westminster, news of relatives and friends, references to 'country disease' and small pox), Edward Williams, Pont y Gwyddell, undated (the recipient's cause in the Caernarvonshire Sessions touching the title to parcels of lands), J. Williams, Caruedvynydd, 1662/3-1669 (2) (a request to speak to Dr. Doulben at Westminster on behalf of the writer's brother, the troubles of John Hughes and his relations with the daughter of Aunt Williams, the falsehoods of Mr. Meredith Lloyd in connection with the return of the second view of the duty of hearth monies, the recipient's affairs here), William Williams, Baronhill, 1671 (thanks for favours at Westminster and for the recipient's care in the settlement of the writer's nephew William Williams), Maurice Wynn, Gwed[ir], 1662 (desires the recipient's help to settle the bearer David Lloyd, son of cousin Jo. Lloyd of Gwickware, in the service of the Court), Edw. Wynne, Whitehall, 1668 (acknowledging the receipt of two notes to receive an order for Board wages from the Cofferer and to receive the recipient's and Col. Burge's New Year gifts from the Jewell house, cloth and materials for a 'shute' for cousin Ed. Lloyd, the writer to be sworn as Serjeant of the Ewry) (addressed to Penybryn, Carnarvonshire), Jo. Wynne, Fort of Plymo[uth], 1667 (an account of Dutch attacks on this coast), Maurice Wynne, Metchlepatam [India], 1674 (craves the recipient's acceptance of a parcel of pictures of the King of Golcundah, a request for the assistance of brother Edward in his interest), and Robert Wynne, Llewessog, [16]64/5 (discussions with Mr. Peeter Whitley and Mr. Raph Whitley concerning proposals by the former, the recipient's tenants). At the end is a draft of a letter from Maurice Wynne to his cousin, [16]76 (a possible lawsuit with the recipient touching a claim to rent).

Twenty-two miscellaneous holograph and autograph letters. The writers include Sidney Brickdall, Penloyn, to Owen Wynne, Cheapside, London, 1688 (the abatement of legacies left by Win. Lloyd, Llanfair, a nephew of the writer's husband) (together with a separate letter on the same sheet from Margaret Salusbury, Plas Issa, to Owen Wynne, 1688, touching an offer of David Symon's mortgage); Ed'd Crue, Wrexham, to Owen Wynn, Gwydder, 1626/7 (the rent of the rectory of [Eglwys-fach] church and the state of the ' flannen') (together with a memorandum touching demand notes for rent, and another memorandum, 1627, by Edward Lloyd touching the demand for rents at the church porch of Eglwysvache); Ralph Griffith to Wm. Wynne, Mold, undated (a request for nine subpoenas, a possible visit to Dr. Wynne at Tower); Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd (in the third person) to Doctor [William] Wynne, [1786] (a request for an opinion on the title to plate and furniture lent to Mrs. Mary Lloyd, Plascock, from Wickwer by her late brothers John and Howel Lloyd) (together with the recipient's opinion subscribed, 14 October 1786); George Monck, 1st duke of Albemarle, T[homas] Clifford, aft. 1st baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and [Sir] J[ohn] Duncombe, Whitehall Treasury Chamber, to Maurice Wynn, Receiver-General for North Wales, at Gwidder, 1668 (the appointment of a collector of Crown revenue); Thos. and Fras. Smedley, Bagilt, to John Wynne, Coed Coch, near Bettws Abergeley, 1777 (2) (a dispute concerning the quality of lead ore sold to the writers by Edward Evans, news of the mine at Llansannen); John Vaughan, Hengwrt, to Owen Wynne, near Wrexham, [17]22 (an examination of the accounts of the earldom of Chester for references to Mold, personal); M. Went, London, to Mrs. [Margaret] Wynne, Bodysgallen, near Conway, 1745 (desires her son [Robert] to be sent to London) (together with an incomplete reply); Bl. Williams to Lady Wynn, Gwydder,?[16]76 (the purchase of lace, meat, fruit, etc., for the recipient in London); Humfrey Wynn to Thomas Gruffith, Henllan, 1679 (the title to lands late of John Hughes in Wickwer); John Wynn, Gwyder, to Win. Lloyd, Lyncols In [sic], 1609 (Wynn of Gwydir Papers, No. 2852); John Wynn, Gwyder, to his son Sir Richard Wynn, 1618 (Wynn of Gwydir Papers, No. 2855); Maurice Wynn [Gwydir] to Hugh Morris, Royall Oak, Cursitors Alley, London, 1666 (business and money matters in connection with the College and the collection of Crown rents); Rich. Wynn, White hall, to his brother Maurice Wynn, Gwidder, 1640 (the recipient's desire for Dolwithelan Castle, the knightship of the shire [Caernarvonshire]); Owen Wynne, Llwyn, to [Edward? Lloyd], 1712 (a balance of £28/7/6 to be paid to Robert Evans, tobacconist, in Grubstreet, London) (together with a postscript to the same effect from the writer's brother John Wynne, and a receipt for the same); Owen Wynne, Brinyorkin, to [-Wynn(e)], undated (2) (Lady Wynn's indisposition, the death of Aunt Lloyd of Tythin, negotiations for a marriage proposal); Robert Wynne to cousin John Wynne, Mayley, [16]61 (a request to pay the demands of Thomas Williams of Ruthin) (together with a letter subscribed from John Wynne to cousin Morris Lloyd, touching upon the same and with reference to the writer's duties as one of the overseers of the will of his uncle Harry Lloyd of Havodynnos); Rob. Wynne [?Bodysgallen], London, to 'Robin', 1758 (the writer's health, the recipient's chicken-hearted way of writing, requests news of Sir Roger Mostyn's success in [the parliamentary election for] Flintshire, greetings to friends); Robert Wynne, Garthmeilio, to [ ], undated (criticism by Denbigh folks of Mrs. Wynne's arrangements for the funeral of her friend Mrs. Hugh Owens); and Sarah Wynne, Gwidder, to her husband Sir Richard Wynne, at Chester, 1666 (anxiety over the recipient's safety, family news). Also bound in the volume is a power of attorney from Sir John Wynne, Gwydder, 1618 (Wynn of Gwydir Papers, No. 2856); and a receipt, 1695/6, from Jo. Tolson to Owen Wynne, by the hand of Edward Lloyd, of a half-year's annuity due to Mrs. Elizabeth Templer.

Seventy-seven holograph and other letters addressed to Edward Lloyd of Tythyn, barrister, and one of the Commissioners of the Stamp, at his chamber in Grays Inn, at the Stamp Office in Lincolns Inn, at Kensington, etc. The writers include Rich. Brook, Harden, 1699/1700 (the tenancy of the demesne of Argoed by Mold), Geo. Buckby, Lincolnes Inne, 1708 (a demand on behalf of the writer's client Mr. Chapman for payment of money due to him) (with an accompanying statement of account and a list of papers to be delivered to the recipient), Will. Byrd, 1682/3 (observations on the suitability of 'my man' for employment by the recipient), Mutton Davies, Gwyss[aney], etc., [16]79 (2) (negotiations for the purchase of the l[ordship] of M[old]), R[obert] D[avies] [Llannerch], 1707/8-1710 (4) (the receipt of a watch, a payment to Lady Rous, estate matters, a claim by Mr. Cornishe's executors, a request by Jack Chambers for writings in the recipient's custody, lack of respect to the Chief Justice shown by the Wrexham mob and the like in Montgomeryshire), Jonath. Edwards, [16]82 (the terms of a loan to the recipient's friend and kinsman) (copy), Samuel Edwards, Newport, 1681/2-1682 (6) (one copy) (negotiations for the purchase by the recipient of Mr. Kenrick Edisbury's estate, a request for assistance in settling the writer's cousin-german in London, a mortgage contract) (together with a copy by the writer of a letter, 1682, to Will. Warn, Scrivener in the Old Bailey, and a holograph letter, 1682, from Ed. Lloyd, Gray's Inne, to Mr. Warn), Hugh Foulkes, Gray's Inn, undated (the possibility of debt on the Argoed estate), Peter Foulkes, Exeter, 1708 (2) ( the receipt of monies covered by enclosed bills), Rob. Foulkes, Chester, 1692-1706/7 (5) (the renewal by the bishop of Rochester of the lease of Argoed, legal matters touching the title to properties, a request for the revision of the wording of a deputation to the writer, the succession to the bishopric of Chester, personal) (with two holograph letters, [16]92-1693, from Robert Roper to Robert Foulkes touching the Argoed lease), Ed'd Gruffith, Plass Newydd [Henllan], undated (cousin Ned's title to cousin Chambers's estate, the Captain's love for the recipient's sister, personal ), J. Haggersten, Berwick, [16]81 and undated (3) (the writer's debts), Rob't Hookes, 1683 (a request for a loan of £10), R. J., undated (an apology for his conduct towards the recipient), [Sir] Bradwardine Jackson, 1703 (a request to promote a marriage between the writer and the daughter of a Mr. Ashton who owns two quays about Billingsgate and a great estate in buildings at Hampstead), Anne Lewys, from Lleweny [1683 or 1684] (unlucky proceedings of cousin Tr. at Tythin, gifts to the poor at Penybrin, personal), [Mrs.] E. Lincolne, 1704/5 [?-1705] (2) (money matters), John Lloyd, Rossa, [16]82-1688 (2) (news from Place Chambers and Lleueny, an opportunity for the writer to acquire the redemption of lands mortgaged by the late brother of John Griffith), John Lloyd, Llannerch, 1709 (news of Mr. [Robert] Davies, a petition on behalf of the writer's unfortunate brother Tom for an appointment in the service of Mr. Diston) (with a postscript by R. D.), John Lloyd, Pengwern, etc., 1707/8-1710/11 and undated ( 24) (negotiations with the trustees for the purchase of Mr. Moyle's estate in Flintshire, surprise at the enterprise of the French and news of the two fleets being engaged, the health and the death of the writer's brother Robin, the death of Aunt Lloyd of Brynyorkin) (with one draft reply and some endorsements), Trevor Lloyd, Ruthin, [16]81/2 (a request for assistance to set up the writer's brother David in his trade) (with a copy of the recipient's reply endorsed), Jo. Twisleton, 1694 (a request for assistance to get a place for the bearer Mr. Acton, a bookseller), George Booth, 2nd earl of Warrington, from Dunham, etc., 1700-1701 (7) (the writer's love affairs, the writer's deeds to be used as a security, Sir Bradw. Jackson's affairs, a reference to Non-Jurors), John Williams, Wrexham, 1700-1708 (4) (accounts touching Mr. Moyle's estate), Jo. Wolfe, 1709 (the sealing of patents), John Wynne [Leeswood], Flint, 1707 (negotiations touching mills in a lease held by the writer), and Owen Wynne, Pengwern, 1701 (a request for a loan of £100 to pay the bishop of Bangor for the tithe of Llanrhayder farmed by the writer, a warning of constant trouble in Radnorshire until a good chapman is found for it). At the end of the volume are two bills of Owen Wynne, 1708-1709, empowering Edward Lloyd to pay monies to Robert Trygarn and to E. Whitehurst, cheesemonger at Coventry, with receipts endorsed.

Seventy-nine holograph letters from Tho. Williams [Broncoed, near Mold] to Edward Lloyd at his Chamber in Chappell Court in Greys Inn, 1677/8-1685 and undated (copious reports on legal and money matters arising from the writer's agency on behalf of the recipient, with references to Tythin, Penybryn, Argoed, etc.; references also to relatives and friends, and to such matters as the purchase of a seat in Mold Church, parliamentary elections, coalworks at Hawarden, etc.) (together with some observations added by the recipient, and enclosed letters from Ed. W [ ], Chester, to Robert Hughes, Bromfeild, 1680, [Major] Ed. Evatt [to Thomas Williams] [1680], Will. Lloyd to [Edward] Lloyd, [16]80, Edward Williams, Pont y Gwyddell to [Thomas] Williams, [16]80, Jno. Langley, Jun., London, to Tho. Williams, 1680-1682, and W. W., Chester, to Thomas Williams, [16]80/1).

Twenty-one letters, largely in the form of drafts or transcripts, from Edw. Lloyd, from Tythin, from Kensington, etc., to John Lloyd, Pengwern, near St. Asaph, etc., Thomas Wilson, bishop of Man, Mr. [ ] Dod, James Stanley, 10th earl of Derby, Jo[hn] Williams, Capt. [ ] Stanley, Mr. [ Richard] Parry, etc., [16]82-1710 and undated (matters pertaining to the writer's estate, including financial transactions, the purchasing and leasing of properties, and the execution of legal documents, with references to the tenancy of Argoed, to Edward (Ned) Griffith, Jack Chambres, Mr. Heaton, Mr. Moyl's trustees, etc.) (with a covering note by J[ohn] Ll[oyd, Pengwern] to Edw. Griffith, [16]82).

Seventeen holograph letters addressed to Howell Lloyd at Hafodunos and at Soughton, near Northop. The writers include [ ] Hall (in the third person), undated (the care of Mr. Griffith's mare, personal), Peter John, Ruthin, 1776 (the financial affairs of the late Mr. Conway of Soughton, with references to chief rents and heriots in Efenechtid and Llangwifen and a debt due to the writer), Edw. Jones, Holywell, 1777 (the examination of Mrs. Susan Lloyd for lunacy, personal), John Jones, W[hi]t Church, 1775 ( an invoice for books, etc., personal, a reference to the sale at Hammer Hall), [Dr.] Trevor Jones, Soughton Grove, 1780 (a plan for the restoration of the recipient's health), David Lloyd, [vicar of] Llangernew, also from Pentre, 1770-1772 (2) (the sealing of 'every place' at Havod unos, the death of the writer's 'worthy friend', the vacant curacy of Llangernew, the writer's relationship with the recipient's family), Hedd Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]70 (the health of their brother, must go to Ruthin and Plascoch), R. Lloyd, Hope, [17]66 and un-dated (2) (the death of Mrs. Wickham, a proposed visit to Soughton, the recipient's health, the death of their brother and of the vicar's brother-in-law), Tho. Sloughter, Chester, 1781 (thanks for a pot of char), Arn[old] Vincent, Stoke D'Abernon, 1780 (a better plan for working the mines on Mold Mountain), Bennett Williams, Chester, 1770 (news of the recipient's brother), J. Wynne, London, 1782 (a draft for £32/10/0, the writer's visit to Soughton, unhealthy weather, news of Mr. and Mrs. Bankes, the 'Dr',s engagements in the Court of Admiralty and on the Visitation of the Bishop of London), and John Wynne, Coed Coch, 1776 (3) (a godfather to an infant son John).

Twenty-five holograph letters to Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd, wife of Howel Lloyd, at Havodunos, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Eriviatt, 1796-1797 (3) (proposed visits to the recipient, the health of the Bishop [of St. Asaph], personal), John Collingridge, Theobald's Road, 1792 (enclosing an account for the coach and harness), Marg. Dod, undated (thanks for Deboray), Holl[an]d Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1788 and undated (2) (the late Mrs. Wickham's will, personal, busy with trees, news of relatives and friends), Catharine Hughes, London, 1788 (the writer's share of the £60 left to her by her uncle Jno. Conway of Efenechtyd), Edw. Jones, Ruthin, 1779 (requiring attestation of the handwriting of the recipient's brother, in connection with an inventory of papers relating to the wardenship of the Hospital), S. Leche, Emral, undated (thanks for a nurse, the writer's health, the death of Mrs. Pugh, 'Die's marriage, references to Whitchurch Races), Dorothea Lloyd [recipient's daughter], Lower Grosvenor Street, 1771 (personal, references to Mrs. Burdet, Miss Meredith, etc.), M[ary] Lloyd, Whitchurch, [17]89 (a proposed visit to the recipient), Phoe[be] Lloyd [niece of the recipient], 1785 (the death of 'poor Hedd'), Cath. Potter ['sister' of the recipient], 1768 (the illness and death of the writer's children, references to relatives), Catharine Potter [niece of the recipient], Barkely, 1775 (2) (the health of the writer's and the recipient's family) (with one addition by [Mrs. Catherine Potter]), M. E. Potter (daughter of the recipient], South H. Street [1797] (the settlement of the recipient's legal business with Mr. Philpott, news of relatives and friends, a reference to the new coinage), Edward Smedley, 1789 (the death of Jane, daughter of the writer's brother and sister[-in-law] (together with a draft or copy of a letter of condolence by the recipient to 'Cousin Smedley'), J. Smedley, College Street [London, 1788] (thanks for a present, the writer's health, news of the writer's family), T. Smedley, Smith Street, Westminster (in the third person), 1782 (thanks for kindness to the writer's family during their separation from the writer, the writer's improving prospects), D. Wickham, Horsington, 1764 (health matters, news of relatives), Mary Wickham, Frome, 1775 (2) (the health of sister Potter), and Wm. Wicksteed, Mount and Soughton, 1790 and undated (2) (legacies left by Aunt Lloyd to her husband's relations, thanks for riotous week).

Fifty-eight holograph letters addressed to Susan(na) Lloyd at Hafodunos, Mold, at Soughton House (upper Soughton), Northop, etc. The writers include Ann Jemima Clough, Thakeham Place, 1797 (a proposed visit by the writer's children, news of family and friends), D[orothea] Clough [the recipient's sister], Denbigh, [1805] and undated (2) (legacies bequeathed by the wills of aunt E. Conway and aunt Wickham) (with one draft reply), Richd. Garnons [Colomendy], undated (2) (pleasantries), Eliza Griffith, Carreg-lwyd, etc., [1801]-1803 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a meeting at Llangefni in connection with a proposed testimonial to Mr. Sparrow for his services in the Customs, disturbances in the Paris mines, the arrival of troopers in Caernarvonshire for fear of a rising by the poor, the discovery of copper at Ynysygwyddal, the birth of an heir at Leweney and a reference to Mrs. Piozzi, the progress of the harvest, comments on a visit to Bath), Holland Griffith, Carreglwyd, 1838 (amusement afforded the recipient by the writer's Welsh paper, hopes that electioneering differences are fast dying away in Flintshire, a visit to the writer by a multitude of Teetotalists, the letting of the writer's colliery at Berw), Richd. Howard, Denbigh and Beaumaris, c. 1817-1843 and undated (4) (news of relatives and friends, a visit to Bangor Deanery, serious proceedings arising from old Panton's will, a change in the agency of the Marquis of Anglesey, satisfaction with the writer's curate, the probable departure of Thomas Davies from Jesus College, Oxford, a new statute in the University, the rejection of three Anglesey young men for scholarships, observations on the projected division of Soughton Common, a legal action touching a mortgage of the Hafodunos estate (together with a receipt, 1815, from Richd. Howard to Susan Lloyd for a sum of £6/10/0 paid by the former on the latter's behalf to Bevan, the timber merchant, on account of Coedycra Mill), the writer's departure from Beaumaris and subsequent movements, income from minerals received for the recipient, dissension in the National Church) (one incomplete), Catha[rine] Lloyd, from Carreglwyd, from Bath, etc., [17]94-1820 and undated (26) (copious news of relatives and friends, references to threats of French invasion and to the defenceless state of the Kingdom (1795-1804), accounts of visits to the theatre and to parties and to Ireland and Bath, etc., Colonel William Shipley's success in the Flintshire parliamentary election of 1807, references to the mine at Ynnisygwyddle), J[ohn] Ll[oyd], Dublin Bay, 1801 (an account of the voyage from Holyhead and the arrival at Dublin), M. Lloyd, Bagillt, etc., [17]81-1790 and undated (9) (personal, the writer's health, news of relatives and friends, the death of the recipient's brother Ben), M. Lloyd, London, etc., 1803-1809 and undated (5) (news of relatives and friends, the health of the writer's husband, a reference to the most excellent shore at Llandidno Bay, the progress of the harvest, the writer's removal to London, visits to the 'Ladies of Llangollen' and to Cheltenham, the recipient's trouble about the writer's chaise), Phoe[be] Lloyd, from Plascoch, undated (the health of the writer's aunt), M. E. Potter, Soughton, [17]91 (personal, business matters on behalf of the writer's mother, news of the writer's mother) (with additions by M. E. Potter to Mr. Potter, touching 'home matters', with references to stock, and from C[atharine] Lloyd to Susanna Lloyd, touching armorial colours for a piece of plate), and Sarah Potter, undated (thanks for the loan of Aunt Lloyd's letter, requires a supply of ale).

Forty-three holograph letters from Eliza Griffith, Carreglwyd, etc., to Phoebe Lloyd at Soughton, at Hafodunos, etc., [17]82-1804 and undated (copious news of relatives and friends, accounts of visits to and from Carreglwyd, the vacant living of Aber, the loss of a vessel opposite Trevadog, the prevalence of ague in Anglesey, an accident to a mail coach on the bridge by Holyhead, the death of 'Shone Pedrog', Malltraeth enclosure (1788-1789), Mr. [Holland] Griffith's attendance at a Druid meeting, a riot at Beaumaris, parliamentary election (1796), a recent dreadful duelling in the writer's area, a reference to Barmouth as a fashionable bathing place (1796), a warrant issued against Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddved, a tax of 3/- in the £, Paul Panton's health and reported arrest for £7,000, the enrolment of the Anglesey militia, a shortage of water, comments on the Irish revolt (1798), the death of Mrs. [Mary] Griffith of Berw, the sad situation of the Fleet (1800), the draining of the mine, the prospect of a bad winter as the result of the farmers' refusal to sell their stock at home (1800), the removal of Mr. Sparrow from the Custom House at Beaumaris, current high prices, shocking perjury at the Anglesey Assizes, rumours of a French invasion, a visit to Puffing [sic] Island, a visit from the famous harper Will Edwards, a meeting at Berw about the embankment) (together with an addition by C[atharine] Lloyd).

Eleven holograph letters or formal notes, 1801-1840 and undated, addressed to the Misses Lloyd at Mold, at Soughton near Northop, and at Berw, Anglesea. The writers include Dorothea [Clough], 1811 (personal), Mr., Mrs. and Miss Foulkes, Castle, undated (condolences), Richard Howard, Conway, 1808 (his happiness on ? becoming engaged to Miss Clough), C. Lloyd, 1822 ( non payment of an annuity), Eliza Roberts, Llanrhydd, 1801 (condolences on the death of Mrs. [Dorothea] Lloyd), Eliz[abe]th Roberts, Efenechtid, 1810 ( the funeral of the writer's mother), Sam[uel] Sandbach, Woodlands near Liverpool, 1840 (the implementation of the Tithe Amendment Act of 1840 in the parish of Llangerniw, co. Denbigh, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Tithe Commissioners' Office, 1840), Dr. Totty, undated (legal matters), and Mr. Williams, Conway, 1801-1802 (2) (financial matters).

Sixty-four holograph letters and three formal notes from [Sir] Jos[eph] Banks, from Soho Square [London], from Spring Grove [Isleworth, co. Middlesex], from Revesby Abbey [Lincolnshire], etc., to John Lloyd at Hafodunos, at Soughton, Northop, at Wygfair, St. Asaph, etc., 1778-1814 and undated (personal and family news and news of acquaintances, and more specifically an invitation to a Royal Society club dinner (1778); Lord Mahon's book on electricity [Principles of Electricity, 1779] and his promise of another in which he would refute Mr. [Benjamin] Wilson's deductions, news of Lord Mulgrave and [Sir Charles] Blagden, and a request for a specimen of saxifraga umbrosa from Ireland (1780); a paper on new double stars to be read to the R[oyal] S[ociety] by [William] Herschel, the death of [? Dr. Solander] and a request for a specimen of Crataegus Aria from the cliffs near the top of Pen Man Mawr [co. Caernarvon] (1782); a balloon flight across the English Channel by [John] Jefferies and [François] Blanchard [this letter is dated January 1784 but this is probably a mistake for 1785, the flight having been made in January of that year], the resignation of the clerkship of the R[oyal] S[ociety] by Robertson and a contest for the post between Messrs. Coppard and Gilpin (1785); [William] Herschel's visit to Germany to take a telescope of his own making as a present to the University of Gottingen, Herschel's progress with his forty feet [telescope], the discovery of a new comet by Caroline, Herschel's sister, a 'bill intended by the manufacturers to restrain the growers of wool' and a meeting to be held in Denbighshire to consider the bill, the teaching of classics in England as compared with the continent (1786); the receipt of a box of plants from the Snowdon area, Danish and Roman antiquities found in the bed of the river Witham [co. Lincoln], the danger of wheat which was imported from America being infected by insects unknown in this country (1788); comments on Shetland sheep and a request for a specimen (1791); the political situation with comments on democrats, constitutionalists, the Whig club, etc., (1793); a visit from David Pennant, the ill treatment of recipient by a riotous mob at Denbigh, the presence of 'dangerous mobs in many counties' caused by 'the first Raising of the Militia', the price of corn, damage estimated at £ 750,000 by floods in Cambridgeshire, Lloyd's service to the country as a magistrate and the value of this office to the constitution, sheep rearing, the discovering of gold in Ireland (1795); the result of the [parliamentary] election in [co. Caernarvon] with mention of the contestants Sir Robert [Williams] and Lord Penrhyn, acknowledgement of receipt of copies of 'Shon Gwialen', the ill effects of apple insect, good wishes to recipient should he 'undertake the arduous task of becoming Knight of your shire', criticism of Thomas and David Pennant (1796); a request by Lloyd for a copy of the map which accompanied Dr. [Christopher] Packe's Ancographia sive Convallium Descriptio (1798); [Frederick] Hornemann's journey to Africa [on behalf of the African Association], the effects of prolonged drought, comments on Adam Smith's theory of 'perfect freedom in trade' (1800); the abundant crops and the price of grain (1801); the result of the [parliamentary] election in co. Kent, the West India docks in the Isle of Dogs and the Wapping Docks, the health of the members of the Royal Family whom the writer had seen at Weymouth (1802); the possibility of an invasion of England by Buonaparte (1803, 1805); Lloyd's wish to become a trustee of the [?British] Museum (1804); the death of [Alexander] Aubert at Lloyd's home, the draining and selling of land by the writer (1805); the writer's anger on seeing the spires of Lincoln minster pulled down, a request for Lloyd's help in procuring answers to a questionnaire concerning alleged damage to cathedral fabrics, comments on 'the Political Hurricane' which had taken the King out of the hands of a Whig administration, the political changes in England, wire worms, the anniversary of the Club, astronomical data (1807); the cultivation of cranberries, news of crops (1808); receipt of a Brazil coin and of tokens for his sister's [Sarah Sophia Banks] collection, Sir H. Englefield's circular letter and canvass of the Society of Antiquaries (1811)). 'Shon Gwialan' probably refers to the pamphlet entitled 'A Letter to the Right Reverend Dr. Warren on his conduct as Bishop of Bangor', published in 1796, in which the writer, 'Shon Gwialan', attacks the bishop of Bangor for alleged nepotism, etc. The identity of the writer has not been discovered.

Seventy-five holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1771-1809.
They comprise letters from L'abbé Andreii, 1777 (personal); R. P. Arden, 1786 (legal and financial); Alexander Aubert, London, 1793-1800 (2) (personal); Mrs. D [ ] Aubert, Highbury House [Islington], 1799-1803 (3) (personal and social); L[ewis Bagot, bishop of] St. Asaph, St. Asaph, Blithfield, and Oxford Street, [London], 1793-1802 and undated (17) (the war against the French and tumults near Mold (1793), the death of [?the Reverend William Stodart] and proposals for filling his vacant preferments, namely Abergele, Bettws and a [prebendal stall] (1794), the appointment of a postmaster at [St. Asaph], the wretched condition of the parish of [?St. Asaph] - allowances to the poor being in arrears, roads neglected, etc., Mr. Jackson's presentation to the living of Abergele (1794), the government's measures to meet the grain shortage (1796), the renewal of recipient's lease of [ ] from the precentor [of St. Asaph], plundering in the neighbourhood of Mostyn (1797), the conduct of Mr. Fox and his friends in Parliament and the raising of supplies for carrying on the war (1797), the need for economy in the consumption of barley, oats and potatoes, and the 'high' state of the market in spite of economies and of the importation of grain (1801), the repeal of the Brown Bread Act, the King's success in filling departments of state and law after the secession of ministers (1801), 'dangerous tampering with Lord Penrhyn's Slate Quarries and amongst the Miners both in Anglesea and Flintshire' (1801), a bill to be introduced in the House of Commons concerning the conduct of the clergy (1802), appointments to the deanery of York and the chair of Hebrew at Christ Church [Oxford] (1802), the arrival [in London] of antiquities from Egypt (1802)); Thomas Baldwin, Hool, [?Cheshire], 1771 (description of a journey in North Wales – Festiniog, Bala, Talardd, Dinas Mouthy, with ascents of Arran Ben Llyn, Cader Idris and ?Arran Mouthy, notes on stratification); M[argaret] Bankes, Old Palace Yard, [London], [?daughter of John Wynne, bishop successively of St. Asaph and Bath and Wells], 1804 (the illness and death of her brother and the disposal of his estate, other family news); Mrs. Bankes, Duke Street, undated (personal and social); Miss [Sarah Sophia] Banks, Soho Square, [London], [sister of Sir Joseph Banks], 1787-1795 (4) (personal and family news, a request for a copy of Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen, and for help in procuring specimens of a Macclesfield ½[d] and a Cronebane ½[d]); J. Barff, Oswestry, 1795 (financial and legal matters); Daines Barrington, London, Beaumaris, Carnarvon, etc., 1772-1787 and undated (13) (personal news and news of acquaintances, instruments from Mr. Ramsden, a promise of Gothic and Runic alphabets and of an account of Elden Hole, [Derbyshire], proposed journeys by Mr. Banks to Iceland and by Mr. Forster to the South Pole (1772), a fire at Garden Court, London (1775), the height of Snowdon, the receiving of the two Forsters [Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, who had accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage] by the King and Queen (1775), the preparation by Forster [senior] of a specimen narrative [in connection with his voyage] for Lord Sandwich's approbation (1775), the arrival of the Gymnotus Electricus, a letter to Mr. Panton stating that Lloyd would be glad to have copies of the correspondence between Sir John Wynne of Gwedir and Sir Hugh Myddelton, Mr. Panton's kindness in allowing the writer to peruse certain Gwedir papers, Lord Bulkeley's improvements at Baron Hill, [Anglesey], an ascent of Mont Blanc (1787), Mr. Herschel's discovery of two satellites to the Georgium Sidus [Uranus], a request for the return of 'the MS. Memoirs of Owen Glendower', the returning of books, namely Milnes Dictionary, Hill's British Herbal, Watson's Chemistry, etc., a gift of a pamphlet ?Letter from the Hon. Daines Barrington, F.R.S., to William Heberden, M.D., F.R.S., giving an Account of some Experiments made in North Wales to ascertain the different Quantities of Rain which fell in the same Time at different Heights [a copy of which is attached]); [William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd duke of] Portland, Whitehall, 1795 (representations made by Lloyd that troops should be quartered at Ruthin, the writer's suggestion to the Secretary at War that this was necessary in order to protect the county gaol where rioters were imprisoned); John ?Binnie, St. Asaph, 1809 (personal); J. Blackburn, St. James Street, [London], [1784] (personal); C[harles] Blagden, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania], and [London], 1778-1796 and undated (4) (mathematical instruments at the college in Philadelphia including a very fine orrery, public lectures to be delivered in the town [of Philadelphia] (1778), the evacuation of Philadelphia by British forces and news of the war in America, letters by Mr. Mills relating to volcanic appearances in the Western Isles, the discovery of two comets by Miss [Caroline] Herschel and [Pierre Francois Andre] Mechain (1790), an acknowledgement of the receipt, on behalf of the Royal Society, of a copy of Edward Jones's The Prevention of Poverty (1796), news of electrical experiments); Lord and Lady de Blaquieres, Denbigh, 1798 and undated (2) (personal and social); Thomas Bolt, Lerwick, [Scotland], 1792 (relief of poverty caused in the area by the effects of bad crops and poor fishing, comments on the opinion held by certain people that the sun was visible for twenty four hours at the summer solstice); B. S. Booth, undated (a request for a ticket to attend debates at the House of Commons); Thomas Boydell, Trevellyn, 1794 (a lease of land on Mold mountain); Dr. William Brownrigg, Ormathwaite [?Cumberland], 1778-1780 (2) (Lloyd's trip to [Cumberland] to see the black lead mines, a request for a specimen of native lead from Anglesea); [Elizabeth Harriet Bulkeley, nee Warren,] Lady Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, [London], undated (personal); [Thomas James Bulkeley, later Warren-Bulkeley, lord] Bulkeley, Stanhope Street, Old Windsor, 1788-1801 and undated (10) (personal news, the tactics of the Opposition in parliament with regard to the issues arising out of the illness of the King [George III] (1788), [William] Pitt [the younger]'s defence of the King and his three parliamentary resolutions for meeting the constitutional crisis and creating a Regency (1788), Captain Williams's canvass of the county of Carnarvon (1790), 'adventures in Copper & Slate' on the writer's land by recipient, the assassination of the Duke of Orleans, talk of sending a fleet to the Baltic (1791), the situation in the East Indies (1791), a meeting with the Duchess of York, the imminence of a French attack upon the Electors of Treves and Mayence and the emmigrants at Coblentz [1791], the destruction of the Duke of Richmond's house at Privy Garden by fire, Sir Watkin Williams's appointment to the stewardship of the lordship of Denbigh and his appointment of Mr. Wynne of Plasnewydd as his deputy (1795), a request for support for Sir Robert Williams against Lord Penrhyn in the [parliamentary election for Carnarvonshire] (1795), the King's recovery from his illness, the writer's opinion that the King could not 'go on without either Pitt or Fox as Prime Minister', his disgust with the political manoeuvering [in parliament], the danger to the country, the unhappy state of parts of the county of Carnarvon (1801), a visit to Paris); [Peter Burrell, Baron] Gwydir [of Gwydir, Caernarvonshire], White Hall [London], 1798 (an invitation to an anniversary dinner of the Honourable Society of Ancient Britons); and Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss [Sarah] Ponsonby, Plas Newydd [Llangollen, 'The Ladies of Llangollen'], undated (social).

Fifty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1767-1815.
They comprise letters from John Call, Whiteford House, [Cornwall], 1799 (a request for help in obtaining returns of baptisms and burials in four parishes in Flintshire in connection with a proposed population check); Arch[ibald] Campbell, Edinburgh, 1801 (the death of [John Campbell], Lord Stonefield); Phoe[be] Campbell, Darlington, Inveraray and Edinburgh, etc., 1791-1796 (6) (her marriage to Lord Stonefield, personal health, detailed accounts of her social activities in Scotland, financial matters); Mr. Champion, Scrivelsby, [Lincolnshire], 1795 (personal); Mr. Chapeau, [London], 1803 (3) (personal, the eagerness and willingness 'this great City is in to meet the first consul and his barbarous Troops', the surrender of Tobago, the possibility of peace with Bonaparte, a fire in Frith Street [London]); Mrs. Anne Cleaver [wife of the bishop of St. Asaph], Bruton Street, [London], and St. Asaph, 1815 and undated (3) (personal, the slight damage to Sir Joseph and Lady Banks's house in Soho Square, [London], mob violence in parts of London, comments on Peter Roberts [of Llanarmon]'s book on Cambrian Customs [The Cambrian Popular Antiquities or An Account of some Traditions, Customs and Superstitions of Wales, etc., London, 1815], the bad news from America); W[illiam Cleaver, bishop of] St. Asaph, [1806x1815] (a request to purchase brandy at a sale at Vron iw); Roger B[utler] Clough, Eriviatt, 1793 (the appointment of overseers of the poor at Llangerniew, [Denbighshire], a riot in the Hope and Mold neighbourhood and intervention by the military, a request to recipient to call at the First Fruits and Tenths offices [in London] on behalf of the writer and some of his friends to pay sums due in respect of the canonries of Rad[ulphi de] Berkinhead [sic] and Arthuri Bulkeley [in the cathedral church of St. Asaph] and the benefices of Thakeham, [Sussex], Llanelidan, [Denbighshire], Halkin, [Flintshire], and Ashington, [?Sussex]); Th[omas] Clough, Roger B[utler] Clough and others [?justices of Denbighshire], Denbigh, 1797 (times and places for training and exercising the supplementary militia [of Denbighshire] and the appointment of an adjutant and paymaster); Thomas Colby, Abergeley, 1806 (mathematical calculations relating to 'the Ruthlan Base or any other part of the Survey'); R. S. Cotton, Combermere Abbey, 1783 (a lease to the writer's father of the minerals in the lordship of [ ] and the granting of tack notes for digging near Llanrhaiader); Tho[ma]s Cotton, Treasury, [London], 1814 (a request for information concerning the heir at law of Mr. Richard Lloyd of Gray's Inn); Henry Cowper, Old Palace Yard, [London], 1811 (arranging a day convenient for both to be present to be called to the Bench of the Middle Temple); Will[ia]m Cox, Captain and Assistant Quarter Master General, Liverpool, 1804 (5) (the payment of expenses incurred in constructing a beacon and but at St. George and the payment of people stationed there, the installing of tubes at St. George Beacon to point in the direction of adjoining beacons at Ormshead and at Gop); Geo[rge] Cumming, London, 1812 (personal, papers read at the Royal Society, the writer's introduction and visits to the reading room of the British Museum, 'this institution truly does honour to the nation', a lecture on the properties of metals by Mr. [Humphry] Davy on the day before he was knighted, the sale of Mackinlay's shop); Foster Cunliffe, Acton Park, [17]88 (apologies for being unable to provide a copy of the rules of the Society of Royal British Bowmen); Edw[ard] Davies, Wrexham and Newmarket, 1803-1805 (2) (horticultural notes, an account of Wrexham fair and a murder committed at the time, an enquiry on behalf of Mr. Davies of Broughton [?Mr. Whitehall Whitehall Davies] concerning the whereabouts of pictures of Mr. Mutton Davies and his lady which had formerly been hanging at Llanerch and were supposed to have been 'drawn by Sir Peter Lilly'); Edw[ard] Davies, Mostyn, 1806 (the Porthymaen estate); J. Davies, London, 1782 (legal); W. Davies, Highbury House, [Islington], 1805 (the bringing home of the body of [Alexander Aubert] and the funeral); Walter Davies ['Gwallter Mechain'], 1803 (the Ystymcolwyn coat of arms, the arms and inscription on the tomb of Meriel Williams, wife of John Williams of Ystymcolwyn, at Myfod, escutcheons in Myfod church); W[hitehall] W[hitehall] Davies, Whittington and Broughton, 1803-1812 (2) (arrangements relating to ? the loan or sale of books, a copy of the catalogue of the Llanerch library compiled in 1778 in the writer's possession [possibly the copy now designated NLW MS 17126D in the National Library of Wales, formerly Gwysaney MS 54], letters from Charles I to the writer's ancestor); Mr. Deluc, 1775-1795 (2) (personal); Rob[er]t Dodd, Terrick, 1767 (personal); Jon[as] Dryander, Soho Square, [London], 1783-1809 (6) (personal news and news of acquaintances, disagreements at the Royal Society (1783), the death of Mrs. Banks [Sir Joseph Banks's mother] in 1804, lack of news of [Frederik] Hornemann [the explorer]); and [Sir] Tho[ma]s [created baron] Dundas [of Aske, Yorkshhire, in 1794], Arlington Street [London] and Upleatham [Yorkshire], 1791-1798 (5) (personal news, preparations for a journey to the Shetlands, the discovery of copper on the race ground near Richmond and at Aske, the results of assays made of the copper ore found at Aske).

Sixty-one holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1776-1814.
They comprise letters, etc., from Joseph Elkington, Birmingham and Wooburn, 1796 and undated (4) (personal, locations of places where the writer had undertaken the job of underdraining); Tho[ma]s Ellis, Rhosfynnach [co. ?], 1804 (the erection of a hut and beacon, a trial fire on the Bodavon mountain beacon); [Sir] Henry C[harles] Englefield, London and Cheltenham, 1782 and undated (4) (personal news, the death of his uncle Sir Ch[arles Louis] Buck, the confusion in the ministry caused by the death of Lord Rock[ingham], comments on scientific instruments); Kathe[rine] Englefield [?Lady Englefield, mother of Sir Henry aforementioned], London, 1785 (personal); J[ohn] Evans, Wynnstay, 1794 (a map which the writer was ? compiling, a request for a sketch of the park at Kinmel); [Sir] George [Augustus William] Shuckburgh Evelyn [the additional name of Evelyn having been assumed in 1793], Shuckburgh Park, [Warwickshire], Felbridge near East Grinsted, Sussex, East Bourne, Westminster, Geneva, etc., 1778-1801 and undated (31) (personal news, news of mutual acquaintances, the construction of an astronomical edifice at Havodunos (1778), a request to Lloyd to call on Walther's, the bookbinder in Castle Court, the Strand [London], sums paid to [Jesse] Ramsden in respect of an 'equatorial' cum pertinentibus [at Shuckburgh] (1789), the death of [Major] General [William] Roy and concern regarding his calculations, books, etc. (1790), peace with Spain (1790), talk of a coalition between Pitt and Fox (1790), the birth of a daughter to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1790), comments on barometrical observations, refraction, etc., observations of the solstice in order to determine the obliquity of the ecliptic (1791), a request for an opinion on the writer's account of the equatorial [An Account of the Equatorial Instrument. From the Philosophical Transactions, London?, 1793?], the defeat of the French (1794), the assumption by the writer of the additional name of Evelyn (1794), fine harvests (1795), the writer's intention 'to determine the length of the Pendulum in order to ascertain a fixed Standard for weights and measures' and preparations for this (1795), 'troublesome Assemblies' and a 'disposition to rio[ts]' in recipient's neighbourhood, the need for vigour and firmness to stop such conduct and the necessity of stopping 'the common people' from taking the law into their own hands (1795), riots and meetings in London to petition against the two Bills (1795) [?the Seditious Meetings Act and the Treasonable Practices Act], the writer's election (1796) [?re-election as Member of Parliament for the county of Warwick], the death of Lady Shuckburgh's uncle, Mr. Medley and his bequest of his property to Lady Shuckburgh and the writer (1796), experiments with the pendulum and the new scales from Troughton and work with regard to weights and measures (1796), the spread of 'the flame of war', the accumulation of private and public debts, the King's illness, the abandonment of the helm by ministers 'in a moment of such danger' and 'for such a miserable pretext as the Catholic question' (1801), an expedition to Mt. Saleve and barometrical and trigonometrical observations and a proposal to measure the height of Mt. Blanc 'by a suite of triangles'); Thomas Fairbairn, Spring Grove, 1812 (questions re. fruit); J. Farey, Langevny, Anglesea, 1813 (arrangements in connection with a proposed mineral survey in North Wales); Cha[rle]s Finch [later Charles Griffith-Wynne], Voylas, [1806] (levies and a fine imposed on the townships of Tre Ganol and Tre Kernioge in the parish of Tir y Abbot, [Denbighshire] in respect of road mending, mention of the Denbigh road and the Great Holyhead Turnpike); T [ ] Firminger, Greenwich Royal Observatory, 1803 (enclosing tables of the geocentric motion of the planets [ie. asteroids] Pallas and Ceres Ferdinandea); Dr. J. Fisher, Doctors' Commons, 1799-1803 (2) (personal); [John Hamilton FitzMaurice, styled viscount] Kirkwall, Denbigh, Deganwy Castle and Charles St. [London], 1812-1813 and undated (6) (personal, a quest for accommodation [in London], comments on Sir Watkin [?Williams Wynn] and his regiment [? the Denbighshire militia], the prospects of peace); [Mary FitzMaurice, suo jure countess of] Orkney, Lleweny, Bath and Charles St. [London], 1793-1814 (3) (personal, the letting or selling of Fron Yew); Ja[me]s Fox, Derby, 1812 (3) (technical details relating to water closets, drying closets, washing machines, steam engines for threshing corn, etc.); and R[ichar]d Fydell, Boston, [Lincolnshire], 1776 (thanks for news of events in America).

Fifty-three holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1772-1812.
They comprise letters, etc., from Sam[ue]l Gale, Brick Court, Temple, and York, 1798-1805 (3) (personal, news of acquaintances); Alex[ander] Galloway, High Holborn, London, 1812 (business matters); John Garnons, Rhiwgoch, 1780 (personal); R[ichar]d Garnons, Carnarvon, 1793 (business and legal matters); G[eorge] Gilpin, Somerset Place, [London], 1798-1804 (2) (notification of meetings of the Royal Society, medical advice); F. Gower, Chelmsford, 1772 (a transcript of a certain manuscript); E. W. Gray, The British Museum, 1798-1800 (2) (acknowledgement, on behalf of the trustees of the Museum, of receipt of a pig of lead found near Salop, personal); C. F. Greville, Carnarvon, 1789 (a journey to North Wales with places visited, and a proposed visit to Aberystwyth and Pembrokeshire, the collecting of specimens on Paris mountain); Rob[er]t F. Greville, The King's Mews and Oxford Street, [London], 1797-1805 (2) (a request for information regarding routes prior to a visit to North Wales, a Roman villa near Rhaiadr y Wenol, a discovery by recipient in the Hengwrt library, a report of an earthquake shock in the Vale of Clwyd, a fir tree with cones dug up in the lead mines on Halkin mountain, Flintshire, personal); Hu[gh] Dav[id] Griffith, Caer Rhun, [17]98 (a request for genealogical information to support a claim to the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Trevor of Llanfyllin, deceased, reference to the pedigree of Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls in 1692, in the Heralds' Office); J. W. Griffith, Garn, [17]94 (a contest for ?the coronership in [Denbighshire]); T. Griffith, Rhual, 1794 (a dispute between Rob[er]t Roberts and Jonathan Armstrong concerning possession of a mine, the writer's opposition to a petition to Parliament 'for granting further powers in the damned inclosure Bill', which powers would enable part of the commons to be sold so that a poor house, a round house and an infirmary could be built); Sackville Gwynne, Glane Brane, 1787 (personal); A. H., [London], undated (medical); S[amuel Hallifax, bishop of] St. Asaph, Warsop, [Nottinghamshire], 1789 (a vacancy in [the benefice of] Llandegla); Major R [ ] Hamilton, Assistant Quarter Master General, Gloucester House, London, 1805 (a request for three copies of the monthly accounts rendered of expenses incurred in respect of wages, fuel, etc., at the beacon under the recipient's superintendance); Tho[ma]s Hanmer, Bettisfield Park, 1795-1796 (2) (disturbances in the neighbourhood of Denbigh and the threat of such incidents in the writer's own district (1795), a request for support with regard to the [parliamentary] representation of the county [of Flint] (1796)); T. B. Hatchett, Ellesmere, 1811 (personal, the writer's acquisition of the Nymphaea Stellata); Ja[mes] Hayes, Conway, 1784 (thanks for information re. the Dean of St. Asaph's cause, the interruption of law business by the election battles in Anglesey and the borough of Carnarvon, the acquittal of a clergyman tried for murder); Mr. Henry, King Street, [Manchester], [1802] (an invitation to dinner, personal); W[illia]m Herschel, Slough near Windsor, 1791-1796 (2) (personal, the dispatch of a telescope to Lloyd (1796)); [Sir] Rich[ar]d Hill, [M.P. for Shropshire], London, 1804 (the candidates for the mastership of Wem school [Shropshire]); J. Holmes, London, 1793 (the death of Mr. Smeaton [? John Smeaton, civil engineer] and the sale of his instruments); J. Holmes, Llysmeirchion, 1810 (a request for an opinion as to the value of a book described in [Joseph] Ames's Typographical Antiquities [London, 1749], under the article 'Faques' or 'Fawkes', as a psalter printed in 1504); S[amuel Horsley, bishop of] St. Asaph, 1803-[1805] (2) (personal, the refusal of the living of St. Martins by Mr. Tisdall); David Hughes, Jesus College [Oxford], [17]93-1794 (2) (the admission of Mr. Jones [to Jesus College] and a grant to him of a Meyrick Exhibition, a violent 'contest' in Denbigh); Edw[ar]d Hughes, Kinmel, [17]92 (the price of Sir T[homas] Dundas's polished glass plates); Edw[ar]d Hughes, Kinmel, 1811 (an appeal for support in dealing with poachers); Ph[illi]p Humberston, Chester, 1803 (genealogical queries); Mr. Hunter and other gentlemen of Shetland, Lerwick, 1791 (an invitation to dine); Dr. John Hunter, Leicester Fields [London], 1778 (the election of a physician to the Westminster General Dispensary); Rich[ar]d Jackson, Abergele, 1804 (the disappearance of birds into a well near [?Abergele]); [Robert Banks Jenkinson, baron] Hawkesbury, [later 2nd earl of Liverpool], Whitehall, [London], 1807 (acknowledging receipt of a loyal address to the King from the High Sheriff and Grand Jury of the county of Denbigh, expressing gratitude for his solicitude in preserving the security of the Protestant Church); Edw[ard] Jones, Soughton, 1780 (personal and legal); Edw[ard] Jones, Adelphi, [London], and Wepre Hall, 1787 (2) (financial matters, ?differences between recipient and his family); Herb[ert] Jones, Llynon, 1784 (the writer's decision to emigrate ?to America, a request for an introduction to Dr. Franklin); J[oh]n Jones, Denbigh, 1799 (thanks for important news, expectation of successes and of favourable news from Italy and Germany and from the fleets, comments on 'this horrid system of French tyranny', cases to be heard at Shrewsbury Assizes); John Jones, Kinmel, 1804 (2) (the erection of a beacon and but ?at St. George); Thomas Jones, Llantysilio, 1806 (a request for a recipe for walnut ketchup and for the titles of certain books); Ll. Kenyon, 1779-1782 (2) (returning a case with opinion, thanks for congratulations); and Edward King, Bedford Row, 1775 (personal, drawings of Elden Hole).

Forty-five holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1766-1812.
They comprise letters from T[imothy] Lane, [FRS], Hart Street, Bloomsbury, [London], 1804 (2) (Lloyd's contrivance for boring rocks and the possibility of ordering one for the Scotch Mines Company, astronomical experiments relating to a luminous ring observed around the moon during the total eclipses of the sun, comments on the opinion of Cassini relating thereto and a request for the bishop of St. Asaph's sentiments, treatment of injuries to the limbs by electricity); G. Lewis, Llwyn Egryn, undated (business); William Liddle, Grassfield near Alston, Cumberland, 1802 (engineering work to be done for recipient); James Lind, Windsor, 1786 (poultry for the Queen, [William] Herschel's work on his 'prodigious Telescope. Twenty people may dine in the Tube very easily'); Andrew Lindegren, London, 1783 (personal); Bell Lloyd, Llanrwst, undated (2) (personal); Doro[thea] Lloyd, Soughton and Havodunos [mother of recipient], 1776-1778 and undated (7) (personal and family news, activities in the neighbourhood); E. [ ] Lloyd, Red Lion Sq[uare, ? London], [1801] (condolences, the death of Lord Stonefield); Edw[ar]d Pryce Lloyd, Pengwern and Stratton Audley, Oxon., 1802-1811 (2) (genealogical queries and data relating to the writer's family); J[oh]n Lloyd, 1766 (financial arrangements, an order for tea, the death of Lady Ann Rushout); John Lloyd, Red Lion Square, [?London], 1788-1791 and undated (4) (legal proceedings); Phoe[be] Lloyd, Levenside, [ ], 1791 (personal); S[amuel] Lysons, 1811 (a canvassing letter on behalf of [George Gordon, afterwards Hamilton-Gordon] 4th earl of Aberdeen, in connection with the contest for the presidency of the Society of Antiquaries, an outline of events leading up to the contest, mention of William Owen Pugh); Theo[dore] Aug[ustus] Mann, Bruxelles, 1778 (data relating to the measuring 'of a degree of the meridien' by various mathematicians); N. Maskelyne, Greenwich, 1784 (paintings and drawings made by Mr. Burgess during a tour of North and South Wales, including a print of Langunna hill seen from Abergwilly); Mrs. Medley, Clapham, undated (thanks for assistance); Thomas Meredith, Wrexham, 1791 (a request for support in his application for membership of the Society of Antiquarians); A. Mills, Dublin and Macclesfield, 1788-1792 (4) (a visit to Ireland, interviews with Col. Vallancy and Mr. Kirwan, mineral prospects on 'our own Mountain' in Ireland, conversations with [ ] Graydon, secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society, re. volcanic matters, news of [Rudolf Eric] Raspe, a paper by the writer on volcanic appearances in the islands of Islay, Mull, etc., which was to be published by the Royal Society, matters relating to the Llandidno mine, claims by Mr. Campbell of Islay [Argyllshire] 'on our Company' for not fulfilling the terms of a mineral lease); Will[ia]m Milnes, Ashover, [Derbyshire], 1811-1812 (3) (news of the lead trade, news of Sir Joseph [Banks] and his family, Mr. [John] Farey's work on a proposed mineral map of the district); C. Moore, London, undated (personal, acceptance, on behalf of his mother, of an offer of a partnership in the trial [for minerals] to be made on Sir Roger Mostyn's grounds); Valentine Morris, [London], 1781 (arranging a meeting to discuss genealogical matters); Pyers Mostyn, Talacre, [1796] (the loan of a dog); Sir Roger Mostyn and Mr. M[ostyn], undated, signed T. Mostyn (personal); L. Mulgrave, Brussells, undated (personal); Major Jos[ ] Muter, Assistant Quarter Master General, Liverpool, 1805 (the beacon and but at St. George's); Robert Myddelton, Gwaynynog, 1802 (personal); W. Myddelton, Temple, [London], 1779 (Hengwrt MSS in Lloyd's hands, the death of Mrs. S. Lloyd, legal matters, reference to Mr. Wilkes); and Fra[nci]s Newton, London, 1801 (personal, news of acquaintances, the grain situation, the transport and sale of barley).

Seventy holograph and autograph letters, notes, etc., addressed to John Lloyd at Garden Court, London, at Hafodunos near St. Asaph, at Wigfair near St. Asaph and elsewhere, 1770-1812.
They comprise letters, etc., from Cath[erine] Parry, Soughton, Llwynegrin, etc. [17]76-[?1778] (14) (detailed news of herself, the family and acquaintances, and of happenings in the neighbourhood); D[avid] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], 1796-1811 and undated (4) (a request for support with regard to [?the parliamentary election in the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn, bart., in July 1796], damage to some of Lloyd's scientific instruments, a quotation from one of [William] Bowles's works relating to various types of jars or vases made in parts of Spain with references to the same from other writers, viz. [Sir John Talbot] Dillon and [Henry] Swinburne); [Richard Pennant, Baron] Penrhyn, Penrhyn near Conway [Carnarvonshire], [? 1795] (a request for support at the next parliamentary election for the county of [Carnarvon]); Tho[mas] Pennant, Downing, [Flintshire], Chester, Lichfield and Gothurst, 1770-1795 and undated (11) (personal, a contract with Moses [Griffith] who was to be instructed 'that he may do justice to our Welch antiquities', a request to Lloyd to ask White, the bookseller [of Fleet Street, London], to advertise the writer's work entitled Synopsis of Quadrupeds [Chester, 1771], a collection of drawings of Welsh monuments in the possession of Mr. Astle probably living in Lambeth, enquiries concerning monuments in the church at Luton, Bedfordshire, a list of buildings, monuments, etc., noted on a journey through Bedfordshire, Buck[inghamshire], Northamptonshire, Warwicksh[ire], Staffordshire and Cheshire (1773), a request that the writer's drawings be left at Mr. White's 'for they must be soon engraven' (1773), comments on relations with America (1775), an earthquake which had shaken the writer's house [at Downing, 1775], congratulations to Lloyd on his work [?as a justice of the peace], a request for a loan of a copy of Mrs. Piozzi's Synonyms [British Synonymy or an Attempt at regulating the choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, by Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi, née Salusbury, formerly Mrs. Thrale, London, 1794], in order to check 'some pedigree remarks on the Mostyn family'); Roger Phillips, London, 1794 (the development of a cutting machine, the making of a turning lathe for Sir Joseph Banks, personal), [Constantine John Phipps, 2nd baron] Mulgrave [of New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland, later 1st baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, Yorkshire], Portsmouth, Bath, and [on board HMS] Courageux, 1776-1780 (5) (enquiries concerning scientific instruments, personal); W. [ ] Phipps, Mulgrave Hall near Whitby, [Yorkshire], undated (personal); Gabriel Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1795-1796 (3) (personal, recommending Mr. Mead as architect in connection with the proposed improvements at Wygfaur and offering timber); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, 1800-1804 and undated (5) (personal, invitations to dinner, etc.); Mr. and Mrs. [Gabriel] Piozzi and Miss Cecilia Thrale, undated (personal); [Mrs.] H[ester] L[ynch] Piozzi, Brynbella [near Tremeirchion, Flintshire], and Denbigh, [1790]-1809 and undated (18) (personal, legal and business affairs, comment on the war against the French (1799) the position in France (1804) and Bonaparte in Egypt (1809), an offer of a corrected copy of the writer's work entitled Retrospection [or a review of the most striking and important events, characters . . . which the last eighteen hundred years have presented ..., London, 1801], invitations to Brynbella to meet Lady Orkney's family, the bishop of St. Asaph and others, a loan of two volumes of the works of [l’] Abbi [?Guillaume Thomas Frangois] Raynal, local news ); John Planta, Fulnec, near Leeds, 1807 (an order for two spinning wheels, descriptions of two different kinds of Reels and of a music desk); Joseph Pocklington, Carlton House near Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire, 1778 (instructions as to 'House covering with Brown Paper'); Rob[er]t Preston, Liverpool, 1793 (financial matters); R. Parry Price, Bryn y pys, [1781x1782] (his inability to attend a meeting of the Order of Druids and his fear of being expelled from the order); and R[ ] Puleston, Camp near Morpeth, Northumberland, and Glan y Môr, Bangor, Carnarvonshire, 1796-1812 (2) (the vacancy in the [parliamentary representation] of the county of Flint caused by the death of Sir Roger Mostyn and the writer's hopes of Lloyd's support in connection therewith (1796), a request for assistance in tracing the pedigree of the Puleston family from 1622 onwards on the occasion of the grant of a baronetcy to the writer (1812)).